EMSA troubleshooting. Protein-DNA complex not migrating, cold probe lane with multiple bands. Can anyone help?

I'm running an EMSA to show the DNA binding activity of recombinant proteins versus the Wild type. Previous assays run by my research group using a different test system show the protein-DNA...

24 February 2021 8,325 1 View

Why is my qPCR suddently not working?

I've been working with qPCR for some months now. I amplify 2 genes (PSEN2 and HN1), and the protocols are optimized for both and have been working fine. The other day I amplified HN1 for some...

21 February 2021 3,437 3 View

Can ethanol be used as an analgesic?

If ethanol has analgesic properties, why isn't it used for clinical purposes?

18 February 2021 8,227 4 View

Acid phenol:chloroform (25:24:1) for RNA extraction instead of (125:24:1)?

Hi everyone! I am about to extract RNA for RNA sequencing assays and my Invitrogen kit/protocol...

14 February 2021 1,755 3 View

Are there any public datasets of consumer complaints about service industries at the European level?

06 January 2021 1,718 2 View

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16 December 2020 9,657 5 View

Tools for analysis of interaction between lncRNAs and proteins/miRNAs?

Hi! I would like to know what tools I could use to analyze interactions between a new lncRNA and possible protein/miRNA targets. The biggest problem I had to find such tools is that the RNA we...

20 November 2020 8,331 3 View

I would like to ask some questions about concentrations of Urea 3M and 8M in two experiments?

I would like to ask if anyone knows if concentrations of Urea 3M and 8M can interfere with protein purification at Ni-NTA and Glutathione Sepharose 43 resins. Another question, Urea, at 3M and 8M...

17 November 2020 5,014 3 View

I would like to ask if anyone among you knows what is the ideal concentration of TFA to use at a chemical synthesis of peptides?

During a chemical synthesis of peptides by the F-moc method, the following happened: all the initial steps of the synthesis occurred as planned, but in the cleavage, TFA is used. In the lab, there...

02 November 2020 2,997 8 View

Can I use generalized linear mixed model to "fix" data absence?

I have some data of the diet of an omnivorous fish diet collected over 20 years. This data is divided in two seasons, the dry period (drought) and the wet period (flood), and I want to analyze the...

10 October 2020 6,546 6 View

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10?

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10? Since, the growth curve from day 2 to 10 won't be like the "Logistic curve" it might not follow logistic...

03 March 2021 1,401 3 View

After a reference from Int J Body Compos Res, can any body help?

Hi, I am after the reference below, my library says it cannot obtain a copy either locally or internationally, any help appreciated! Chris Wang ZM, Heshka S, Wielopolski L, Pi-Sunyer FX, Pierson...

03 March 2021 6,193 1 View

What techniques can I use to determine the miscibility of polymer blends?

The term miscibility refers to the single-phase state in thermodynamics. I do not mean the compatibility of different components. To determine the miscibility I know several techniques such as...

03 March 2021 4,107 4 View

How to repeat an operation on an atom selection for multiple times in PyMol?

Hi, I am trying to construct a multi-layer fibril structure from a single layer in PyMol by translating the layer along the fibril axis. For now, I am able to use the Translate command in PyMol...

02 March 2021 4,569 4 View

Shall I skip the measurement model in SmartPLS?

Hello everyone, I had run a mediation model in SmartPLS using questionnaires that were already validated among my statistical population. A professor who edited my paper -though she is not...

01 March 2021 3,052 3 View

What is involved in morphological changes of SEM images of a substance?

In the sem analysis of CaCO3 nanaoparticles, the morphology images showed spherical shaped particles but the proposed morphology for these type of nanoparticles is trigonal. I prepared the...

01 March 2021 1,960 4 View

Joint behaviour in Abaqus is not captured well?

I am working on roof joint and trying to simulate the behaviour in Abaqus. I am successful in running the model but the final graph does not follow the experimental curve in the negative direction...

01 March 2021 6,661 3 View

How to define tie constraint between rigid body and another part in dynamic explicit model of Abaqus?

Hi dear researchers I connected a rigid body into the part of my structure by tie constraint and then I added displacement to rigid body, in static general step every thing is fine and these two...

28 February 2021 3,442 2 View

Does the circuit modeling for planar monopole antennas using Foster canonical forms give good approximation?

Hi researchers, I am searching for some accurate way to do the circuit modeling of planar CPW-fed monopole antennas. I have gone through the literature where mostly circuit modeling is done using...

28 February 2021 7,016 1 View

How to modify Johnson cook equation in ABAQUS?

I wanted to add an extra parameter to the existing Johnson cook equation in the ABAQUS simulation. How to add those extra parameters. Ref: A modified Johnson-Cook material model with strain...

28 February 2021 4,841 3 View